Recent content by Xastabus

While I am not someone who generally likes ads I am willing to put up with them if they are unobtrusive, not repetitive, and speak to my interests. Generally the ads on The Escapist are two of those three. On the other hand I am more adverse to paying for access to web sites, even if it's just...

Please ignore my previous post, a much better and easier method of correcting the problem caused by ad blocking software on The Escapist would be to add The Escapist to the Allowed list in your ad blocking software. I should have mentioned this in my previous post. I do not advocate ad...

I am unable to quote for some reason... and yesterday the page numbers didn't show up. These forums have some issues. Anyway, @Hashime - I was using a bicycle speedometer that had been properly calibrated. I wasn't an athlete at the time (nor am I now) and the majority of people I see...

Apparently Australia does have ESRB M and AO equivalent ratings, R18+ and X18+ respectively, but some stodgy old law prevents them from being used to classify video games. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Film_and_Literature_Classification_(Australia) Dear Australian...

By my calculation, 40km/h = 24.85 MPH. The best I ever achieved as a skinny-yet-fit teenager with a good 12 speed bike was 20MPH (32km/h) on flat land. I would say that's a good benchmark for the maximum speed the average (non-athletic) person is capable of achieving. Based on that, I don't...

In my opinion if a sidewalk is available then bicycles absolutely do not belong in the street with motorized vehicles. Where sidewalks are not available, then bicycles can use the road or be walked on the shoulder. I looked up the bicycle laws for my state and the only thing I could find...

Gamestop does not retain credit card numbers at physical stores. If they did I could just have them bring up my account and charge me. For very obvious reasons that isn't possible. I seriously doubt their in-store point of sale system even has fields on the customer account for credit card...

Voting no for two reasons. One, religion has no place in American government. God can bless America if she wants to, but keep her wayward, hypocritical, intolerant, and frankly insane zealot followers out of our lives. Yes, I have religion. No, it is none of your business what I believe...